Structure,function,and plasticity of GABA transporters

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Scimemi, Annalisa ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; GABA transporters; GAT1; GAT3; SLC6; Synaptic plasticity; Synaptic transmission; Uptake

Indexed keywords

1 (4, 4 DIPHENYL 3 BUTENYL) NIPECOTIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER; ABC TRANSPORTER A1; ABC TRANSPORTER A12; ABC TRANSPORTER A13; ABC TRANSPORTER A6; ABC TRANSPORTER A8; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM ION; CREATINE; CREATINE TRANSPORTER; EZRIN; GABA TRANSPORTER 1; GABA TRANSPORTER 2; GABA TRANSPORTER 3; GAMMA AMINOBUTYRIC ACID TRANSPORTER; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED GUANYLATE CYCLASE KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOAMINE; PDZ PROTEIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SODIUM ION; SOLUTE CARRIER 6; TAURINE TRANSPORTER; TIAGABINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID UPTAKE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN REGION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTICITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR DENSITY; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TURNOVER TIME; XENOPUS;

EID: 84902594501     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00161     Document Type: Article

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